Changes must be reviewed before being displayed on this page. 1990s, and related books and workshops by a variety of teachers. Advocates claim that the technique may be used to treat a wide variety of physical and psychological disorders, and as a simple form of self-administered therapy. The existence of this life force is “not empirically supported”. Some practitioners incorporate eye movements or other tasks. The emotional intensity is then rescored and repeated until no changes are noted in the emotional intensity.

However, the theory and mechanisms underlying the supposed effectiveness of EFT have “no evidentiary support” “in the entire history of the sciences of biology, anatomy, physiology, neurology, physics, or psychology. Researchers have described the theoretical model for EFT as “frankly bizarre” and “pseudoscientific. One review noted that one of the highest quality studies found no evidence that the location of tapping points made any difference, and attributed effects to well-known psychological mechanisms, including distraction and breathing therapy. EFT has no useful effect as a therapy beyond the placebo effect or any known-effective psychological techniques that may be used with the purported “energy” technique, but proponents of EFT have published material claiming otherwise.

Their work, however, is flawed and hence unreliable: high-quality research has never confirmed that EFT is effective. The review concluded that positive results may be “attributable to well-known cognitive and behavioral techniques that are included with the energy manipulation. Psychologists and researchers should be wary of using such techniques, and make efforts to inform the public about the ill effects of therapies that advertise miraculous claims. EFT on a scale describing how discredited EFT has been in the field of psychology. On average, this panel found EFT had a score of 3. 8 on a scale from 1. 0 meaning “possibly discredited” and a 4.